What Would be the Purpose of THIS?

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What Would be the Purpose of THIS?

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<p>Monday morning quick question for speculation and discussion<em> (because I am easily distracted by "shiny objects")</em>:</p>
<p>What would be the point of creating a new Steemit account that goes around and automatically <em>(but seemingly arbitrarily)</em> flags <em>three</em> posts for each user it encounters?</p>
<p>And does so <em>thousands</em> of times, even though its voting power sits around 8%, and at 15SP, the votes are basically "dust."</p>
<p>Quite often, the posts are months or even years old. Which makes even <em>less</em> sense.</p>
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<img src="https://i.imgur.com/8FpRnFz.jpg" alt="Votes" /><br />
<em>Does this strike you as an "odd"voting pattern? And always in groups of 3.</em></p>
<p>Is this just someone with "<em>too much time on their hands?</em>"</p>
<p>Is it a precursor to one of those "nuisance bots" we had, back in the earlier days?</p>
<p>Is it a ploy by some "<em>evil overlord</em>" who's eliminating competitors because they part of something (a contest, a game) where anyone who has three or more flags is automatically prevented from participating... and thus would not become competition?</p>
<p>Is it a hijacked account?</p>
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<img src="https://i.imgur.com/XWisd4p.jpg" alt="Votes" /><br />
<em>THAT many flags/downvotes, in a day?</em></p>
<p>The full visual graphic can best be seen by <a href="https://steemworld.org/@donaldducky"><strong>looking at the subject page on SteemWorld</strong></a>.</p>
<p>There's no law against such action, of course... it just seems "<em>odd,</em>" and hence noteworthy.</p>
<p>As I said, I am easily distracted by "<em>shiny objects</em>" so this is just idle chatter, really. But I'd be curious to see what one of our analysts like <strong>@paulag</strong>, or even <strong>@patrice</strong> who chases potential trouble "<em>hot spots</em>" might make of this.</p>
<p>You know, because "blockchain transparency," and all that rot!</p>
<p>We now return to our regularly scheduled programming...</p>
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